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Let's compile a list of all the best mods for Fallout: New Vegas.
I haven't tried very many - do you guys have some suggestions?
So far I like:
Expensive Wasteland - Increases all merchant prices by 5x - helps make the Hardcore mode more challenging and balances the way it is too easy to become rich in the vanilla game.
Harder Hardcore Rates - Gives the Hardcore mode some "teeth" so you actually run out of food and water some times. I even died from dehydration!
Arwen's Realism Tweaks - Simply awesome Fallout New Vegas Gameplay Overhaul, focused on making the New Vegas Mojave Wasteland a much harsher place, where your stats and skills are MUCH more important.
Conelrad Radio Sation - Adds a new Radio Station to New Vegas with an authentic 1950s pre-war feel, music that fits with the vanilla version of the game and some awesome nuclear holocaust-related PSAs.
Here is a list of mods with links and descriptions - haven't installed any of these yet, personally, other than the ones mentioned above and NVSE, as well as the 4GB Patch:
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Utilities
NVSE - extends New Vegas scripting capabilities. NVSE is essential for many of the mods in this list.
BOSS - re-orders your load order.
3GB Fallout New Vegas PLUS[/url]- Enables Fallout New Vegas 32-bit to currently use less than 4GB of RAM, NVSE compatible and tested.
Wrye Flash - Similar to Wrye Bash (for Oblivion) and Wrye Mash (for Morrowind), Wrye Flash allows for many sophisticated ways to merge a large number of mods together with a "bashed" patch.
FOMM- A collection of utilities related to both creating and using mods.
FNVEdit - FNVEdit is an advanced graphical module viewer/editor and conflict detector .
Save Key - Adds a hotkey to save the game. (Not Quicksave, but a "hard" save).
FNV Plugin Utility - Allows you to merge plugins.
CASM - Improves the Save system.
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Radio Stations:
New Vegas Jazz - Adds a Jazz radio Station.
Conelrad Radio Sation - Adds a new Radio Station to New Vegas with an authentic 1950s pre-war feel, music that fits with the vanilla version of the game and some awesome nuclear holocaust-related PSAs.
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Overhaul Mods
Arwen's Realism Tweaks - Simply awesome Fallout New Vegas Gameplay Overhaul, focused on making the New Vegas Mojave Wasteland a much harsher place, where your stats and skills are MUCH more important.
Project Nevada - A collection of changes enhancing the FPS gameplay feel, such as a sprint mod, grenade hotkey, and a lot more.
Powered Power Armor - Power Armor now has a lot of enhancements, it carries itself, it can be recharged, among other cool stuff.
Passive Animals & Critters - Alters the default Animal Behavior.
WME - Weapon Mod Expansion - Expands on Vanilla Weapon Mod Expansion.
FOOK - An overhaul mod which adds hundreds of new items, high quality retextures and many new gameplay features to the base game.
XFO NV Overhaul - XFO-NV is a modular overhaul for Fallout: New Vegas. That means that it addresses many issues, but you can choose what you want and what you don't. (more info HERE
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Places and Quests:
New Vegas Bounties - New Quest, on which you assume the role of a Bounty Hunter.
Wasteland Defense - Construct your own wasteland fort and defend it from enemy raiders.
New Vegas Strip No Gates - Removes gates from the Strip.
Tales From The Burning Sands - Adds a quest to the game.
A World of Pain - Adds 48 intense locations to the wasteland filled with enemies and loot.
Strip and Freeside Markers - Adds Map Markers to the Strip and Freeside.
Colonized Freeside - Overhauls Freeside to a more realistic level of detail a civilization whilst staying law Friendly.
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Tweaks:
Expensive Wasteland - Increases all merchant prices by 5x - helps make the Hardcore mode more challenging and balances the way it is too easy to become rich in the vanilla game.
Harder Hardcore Rates - Gives the Hardcore mode some "teeth" so you actually run out of food and water some times. I even died from dehydration!
Less Intrusive Kill Cam - Decreases the Kill Cam duration and frequency.
Animated Food and Drinks - Adds an animation for drinking and eating.
Active Wasteland - Forgotten items such as lamps, or coffee makers now have actions.
KTs SpeedSquad - Changes the Companions following distance.
Reactive People I and II - People now react to your actions, such as sneaking around or pointing a gun at them.
Free Wild Wasteland - Gives the Wild Wasteland trait for free. As soon as you leave goodsprings, it will ask you whether you want this trait or not.
No Neos - Enemies can no longer dodge bullets.
Sniper Perk Enhanced - Enhances the Sniper Perk, by reducing spread, among other things.
Charisma Based Follower Limit - Self Explanatory.
Bottle That Water - Enables you to bottle water for later drinking.
Mojave Express Expansion - Turns the Post Office boxes into Mojave Express dropbox send stations.
Casino Bets - Replaces the minimum/maximum bet value according to how well the casino looks.
Lucky Lighter - Gives the Lucky Lighter a +1 Luck effect.
IWS Increased Spawn - Self Explanatory.
Resident Evil Camera - Changes the Camera to work like in Resident Evil.
NCR Enhancement - Adds new npcs, vendors and fortifications (lore friendly).
Z 1ASS RPG - Changes to quest, Perk/Trait, Stat, Skill and message descriptions to reflect 1st person, among other things.
Realistic Weapons Damage - RWD - Increases BodyPart Damage, headshots are now Fatal and combat is much more dangerous. Also increases explosion effect.
The Walking Dead - Makes ghouls walk, among other things.
Weapon Animation Replacers - Replaces weapons animations.
Fallout New Vegas Re-Animated - Improves game animation, like aiming, running, etc.
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Graphics Mods
The Imaginator - User-Selectable image enhancement such as film grain.
Rusty Highway - Adds damaged cars throughout the Highway.
Detailed Normals - Bumps up the New Vegas Landscape textures and makes them more crisp and detailed.
Parkerized Pip Boy - Improves the Pip-Boy general look.
Arenovalis Weapon Retexture Project - This is a pack release containing all of Arenovalis's New Vegas weapon re-textures.
FNV Enhanced Shaders - adds some visual pizazz and styling to the graphics of Fallout New Vegas.
Visual Drugs - Adds visual effects to chems.
Dynavision I - Provides a dynamic depth-of-field and auto-focus effect similar to a camera.
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Bug Fixes and Patches:
New Vegas Stutter Remover - Attempts to remove stutter by doing several things to improve performance.
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NPC Mods:
NCR Doggy Buddies - Changes the NCR Dogs to normal dogs, and adds a NCR Helmet.
Alsatian Rex - Transforms Rex into a Real Dog.
New Vegas Redesigned - Enhances NPC faces, similar to Tamriel NPCs Revamped for Oblivion.
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Weather:
Nevada Skies URWL - Improves the game with weather settings such as sandstorms, and a sky resembling real life with URWL lighting.
Electro City - Adds light sources .
Lighten Up New Vegas - Adds more diversion to the soundtrack.
Interior Lighting Overhaul - Improves the interiors, making it darker.
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Clean Up:
Clean Up New Vegas - Cleans up New Vegas, removing useless clutter from the ground.
New Vegas Restoration - Cleans up New Vegas, removes Trash , etc.
Cleaned Novac - Cleans up Novac, removes all the trash and fixes the street.
Clean Goodsprings - Cleans up Goodsprings, removing all the trash.
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User Interface
Asuka HUD - Changes the HUD, replacing icons, etc.
Pip Boy Readius - It replaces the regular ingame Pipboy with a handheld Readius-like device.
Darnified UI - Improves the User Interface in a number of ways.
HUD Extended - Extends the HUD to see time, among other things.
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Textures
Enhanced Blood Textures - Enhances the default blood texture, along with several other improvements such as screen splatter.
High Resolution Night Sky - Enhances the Night Sky.
Hi-Res World View Weapon Textures - Makes the guns look exactly like they do in first-person.
Hi-Res Eyes Replacer - Enhances the Eye Texture.
Ojo Bueno HQ Textures - Enhances the game textures.
Philekos HQ Ranger Armor - A retexture of the Ranger Combat armor.
NV - Terrain Recreational Project - [Detailed Normals Required] Improves Terrain Textures
HuntersJoy Pack - Enhances and removes the unrealistic coloured glow from monsters.
Human Body and Face - New normals and speculars for default human bodies.
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Clothes
De-Equipable Companion - The goal of this project was to allow the removal of default companion weapons and armor to allow for a more customizable experience.
TYPE 3 Body and Armor Replacer - Transforms the Feminine armors into a more "Feminine" type.
Fade That Faction Armor - You can now fade the faction script from a faction armor, so you can use it like a normal armor.
BlackWolf Backpacks - Adds wearable backpacks to the game.
Dragonskin Tactical Outfit- Adds a selection of "dragonskin" outfits - in different colours and camo patterns.
Advanced Recon Thermal Nightvision - This mod adds several sets of stealth armor.
Reinforced Armors - Adds an option to reinforce armors. EX: Leather Armor > Reinforced Leather Armor[/list]
I haven't tried very many - do you guys have some suggestions?
So far I like:
Expensive Wasteland - Increases all merchant prices by 5x - helps make the Hardcore mode more challenging and balances the way it is too easy to become rich in the vanilla game.
Harder Hardcore Rates - Gives the Hardcore mode some "teeth" so you actually run out of food and water some times. I even died from dehydration!
Arwen's Realism Tweaks - Simply awesome Fallout New Vegas Gameplay Overhaul, focused on making the New Vegas Mojave Wasteland a much harsher place, where your stats and skills are MUCH more important.
Conelrad Radio Sation - Adds a new Radio Station to New Vegas with an authentic 1950s pre-war feel, music that fits with the vanilla version of the game and some awesome nuclear holocaust-related PSAs.
Here is a list of mods with links and descriptions - haven't installed any of these yet, personally, other than the ones mentioned above and NVSE, as well as the 4GB Patch:
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Utilities
NVSE - extends New Vegas scripting capabilities. NVSE is essential for many of the mods in this list.
BOSS - re-orders your load order.
3GB Fallout New Vegas PLUS[/url]- Enables Fallout New Vegas 32-bit to currently use less than 4GB of RAM, NVSE compatible and tested.
Wrye Flash - Similar to Wrye Bash (for Oblivion) and Wrye Mash (for Morrowind), Wrye Flash allows for many sophisticated ways to merge a large number of mods together with a "bashed" patch.
FOMM- A collection of utilities related to both creating and using mods.
FNVEdit - FNVEdit is an advanced graphical module viewer/editor and conflict detector .
Save Key - Adds a hotkey to save the game. (Not Quicksave, but a "hard" save).
FNV Plugin Utility - Allows you to merge plugins.
CASM - Improves the Save system.
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Radio Stations:
New Vegas Jazz - Adds a Jazz radio Station.
Conelrad Radio Sation - Adds a new Radio Station to New Vegas with an authentic 1950s pre-war feel, music that fits with the vanilla version of the game and some awesome nuclear holocaust-related PSAs.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Overhaul Mods
Arwen's Realism Tweaks - Simply awesome Fallout New Vegas Gameplay Overhaul, focused on making the New Vegas Mojave Wasteland a much harsher place, where your stats and skills are MUCH more important.
Project Nevada - A collection of changes enhancing the FPS gameplay feel, such as a sprint mod, grenade hotkey, and a lot more.
Powered Power Armor - Power Armor now has a lot of enhancements, it carries itself, it can be recharged, among other cool stuff.
Passive Animals & Critters - Alters the default Animal Behavior.
WME - Weapon Mod Expansion - Expands on Vanilla Weapon Mod Expansion.
FOOK - An overhaul mod which adds hundreds of new items, high quality retextures and many new gameplay features to the base game.
XFO NV Overhaul - XFO-NV is a modular overhaul for Fallout: New Vegas. That means that it addresses many issues, but you can choose what you want and what you don't. (more info HERE
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Places and Quests:
New Vegas Bounties - New Quest, on which you assume the role of a Bounty Hunter.
Wasteland Defense - Construct your own wasteland fort and defend it from enemy raiders.
New Vegas Strip No Gates - Removes gates from the Strip.
Tales From The Burning Sands - Adds a quest to the game.
A World of Pain - Adds 48 intense locations to the wasteland filled with enemies and loot.
Strip and Freeside Markers - Adds Map Markers to the Strip and Freeside.
Colonized Freeside - Overhauls Freeside to a more realistic level of detail a civilization whilst staying law Friendly.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tweaks:
Expensive Wasteland - Increases all merchant prices by 5x - helps make the Hardcore mode more challenging and balances the way it is too easy to become rich in the vanilla game.
Harder Hardcore Rates - Gives the Hardcore mode some "teeth" so you actually run out of food and water some times. I even died from dehydration!
Less Intrusive Kill Cam - Decreases the Kill Cam duration and frequency.
Animated Food and Drinks - Adds an animation for drinking and eating.
Active Wasteland - Forgotten items such as lamps, or coffee makers now have actions.
KTs SpeedSquad - Changes the Companions following distance.
Reactive People I and II - People now react to your actions, such as sneaking around or pointing a gun at them.
Free Wild Wasteland - Gives the Wild Wasteland trait for free. As soon as you leave goodsprings, it will ask you whether you want this trait or not.
No Neos - Enemies can no longer dodge bullets.
Sniper Perk Enhanced - Enhances the Sniper Perk, by reducing spread, among other things.
Charisma Based Follower Limit - Self Explanatory.
Bottle That Water - Enables you to bottle water for later drinking.
Mojave Express Expansion - Turns the Post Office boxes into Mojave Express dropbox send stations.
Casino Bets - Replaces the minimum/maximum bet value according to how well the casino looks.
Lucky Lighter - Gives the Lucky Lighter a +1 Luck effect.
IWS Increased Spawn - Self Explanatory.
Resident Evil Camera - Changes the Camera to work like in Resident Evil.
NCR Enhancement - Adds new npcs, vendors and fortifications (lore friendly).
Z 1ASS RPG - Changes to quest, Perk/Trait, Stat, Skill and message descriptions to reflect 1st person, among other things.
Realistic Weapons Damage - RWD - Increases BodyPart Damage, headshots are now Fatal and combat is much more dangerous. Also increases explosion effect.
The Walking Dead - Makes ghouls walk, among other things.
Weapon Animation Replacers - Replaces weapons animations.
Fallout New Vegas Re-Animated - Improves game animation, like aiming, running, etc.
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Graphics Mods
The Imaginator - User-Selectable image enhancement such as film grain.
Rusty Highway - Adds damaged cars throughout the Highway.
Detailed Normals - Bumps up the New Vegas Landscape textures and makes them more crisp and detailed.
Parkerized Pip Boy - Improves the Pip-Boy general look.
Arenovalis Weapon Retexture Project - This is a pack release containing all of Arenovalis's New Vegas weapon re-textures.
FNV Enhanced Shaders - adds some visual pizazz and styling to the graphics of Fallout New Vegas.
Visual Drugs - Adds visual effects to chems.
Dynavision I - Provides a dynamic depth-of-field and auto-focus effect similar to a camera.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Bug Fixes and Patches:
New Vegas Stutter Remover - Attempts to remove stutter by doing several things to improve performance.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
NPC Mods:
NCR Doggy Buddies - Changes the NCR Dogs to normal dogs, and adds a NCR Helmet.
Alsatian Rex - Transforms Rex into a Real Dog.
New Vegas Redesigned - Enhances NPC faces, similar to Tamriel NPCs Revamped for Oblivion.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Weather:
Nevada Skies URWL - Improves the game with weather settings such as sandstorms, and a sky resembling real life with URWL lighting.
Electro City - Adds light sources .
Lighten Up New Vegas - Adds more diversion to the soundtrack.
Interior Lighting Overhaul - Improves the interiors, making it darker.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Clean Up:
Clean Up New Vegas - Cleans up New Vegas, removing useless clutter from the ground.
New Vegas Restoration - Cleans up New Vegas, removes Trash , etc.
Cleaned Novac - Cleans up Novac, removes all the trash and fixes the street.
Clean Goodsprings - Cleans up Goodsprings, removing all the trash.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
User Interface
Asuka HUD - Changes the HUD, replacing icons, etc.
Pip Boy Readius - It replaces the regular ingame Pipboy with a handheld Readius-like device.
Darnified UI - Improves the User Interface in a number of ways.
HUD Extended - Extends the HUD to see time, among other things.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Textures
Enhanced Blood Textures - Enhances the default blood texture, along with several other improvements such as screen splatter.
High Resolution Night Sky - Enhances the Night Sky.
Hi-Res World View Weapon Textures - Makes the guns look exactly like they do in first-person.
Hi-Res Eyes Replacer - Enhances the Eye Texture.
Ojo Bueno HQ Textures - Enhances the game textures.
Philekos HQ Ranger Armor - A retexture of the Ranger Combat armor.
NV - Terrain Recreational Project - [Detailed Normals Required] Improves Terrain Textures
HuntersJoy Pack - Enhances and removes the unrealistic coloured glow from monsters.
Human Body and Face - New normals and speculars for default human bodies.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Clothes
De-Equipable Companion - The goal of this project was to allow the removal of default companion weapons and armor to allow for a more customizable experience.
TYPE 3 Body and Armor Replacer - Transforms the Feminine armors into a more "Feminine" type.
Fade That Faction Armor - You can now fade the faction script from a faction armor, so you can use it like a normal armor.
BlackWolf Backpacks - Adds wearable backpacks to the game.
Dragonskin Tactical Outfit- Adds a selection of "dragonskin" outfits - in different colours and camo patterns.
Advanced Recon Thermal Nightvision - This mod adds several sets of stealth armor.
Reinforced Armors - Adds an option to reinforce armors. EX: Leather Armor > Reinforced Leather Armor[/list]
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